Notes

*A better translation might be "compote" - but many people aren't familiar with this term. I came across compotes when I lived in France in college. The lady I lived with would make it. It's a French dessert made from slices of fruit cooked and stewed in water with sugar and spices.

Sheet Music

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Ulrike Bernhard for contributing this song, to Maguy Cabrol for translating it into French. Many thanks also to Christina Weising for her help. English translation by Lisa Yannucci and Monique Palomares.

Images are from a picture sheet which were popular in the old days. Images were edited by Mama Lisa to clean them up and remove the text which was illegible.

Here's the info on the picture sheet: Munich picture sheet. #69. 11. Edition. Edited and published by Braun & Schneider in Munich. Kgl. Court and university printing office of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn in Munich. In the last image, signed and dated Eduard Ille 1851 - Eduard Ille (1823-1900) from 1850 to 1897 has illustrated 71 pictures -Munich.